got a lot of help from the lousy economy, his opponent's blunders and he seemed to connect with the swing voter in massachusetts that was not strong enough to hold on to the seat two years later when he ran for a full term and faced a charismatic populist who did know how to run a campaign and beat him by eight points. even in his concession speech, brown made it clear he had not run his last campaign. there was speculation he would run for governor of massachusetts, or for the state's other u.s. senate seat. what no one would have predicted a year ago is that brown had given up altogether on the idea of running in massachusetts. and is now focusing on the state's neighbor to the north, the less blue, more republican friendly state of new hampshire. so he's been taking that pickup truck of his into the granite state, where democratic senator jeanne shaheen will run for re-election next year. the polling shows he might actually have a shot in september. shaheen was edging brown by only four points. in order to face shaheen, if he gets that far, brown has to get past some interesting primar